The Dick Dowling Confederate monument pays tribute to Richard William Dowling, who served in the Jefferson Guards and hailed as a war hero in Houston. (Photo: Houston Parks and Recreation)

A criminal complaint filed in federal court Monday accuses a 25-year-old man of attempting to blow up a Confederate monument in Houston’s Hermann Park last week.

Andrew Schneck faces charges of attempting to maliciously damage property receiving federal financial assistance, the Justice Department announced in a press release. The case is being handled in federal court because the park receives financial assistance from the federal government.

The criminal complaint alleges that a park ranger noticed Schneck Saturday evening kneeling near the Dick Dowling Confederate monument. According to the City of Houston website, Dowling, who served in the Jefferson Davis Guards, “was hailed as a war hero in Houston.”

At the time of the incident, Schneck was holding two small boxes. The ranger observed what appeared to be duct tape, wires and a timer.

As the ranger approached, Schneck placed the boxes on the ground and took a clear plastic bottle containing a liquid out of one of the boxes. Schneck took a drink of the liquid, but immediately spit it out, then poured the contents onto the ground.

The ranger asked Schneck if he wanted to cause harm to the statue, to which he replied yes and added that he did not “like that guy.”

A field test determined the liquid was most likely nitroglycerin, which was described by FBI Special Agent Patrick Hutchinson as “one of the world’s most powerful explosives” in undiluted form. A white powder was also found at the site, which field tests determined was most likely hexamethylene triperoxide diamine. According to Hutchinson, “HMTD is used as an initiating, or primary explosive.”

Furthermore, according to reports from the Houston Chronicle, Larry Satterwhite, an assistant Houston police chief who oversees the Homeland Security Command, said a search of Schneck’s home turned up a “significant amount” of “very hazardous materials.”

However, this isn’t Schneck’s first brush with federal law enforcement. In 2014, he was convicted on another explosives charge and sentenced to serve five years in prison. He was released early last year.

Philip Hilder, an attorney who represented Schneck during the 2014 case and currently represents him, said the situation is “evolving” and the investigation ongoing. Hilder said to comment on the case at this point would be “premature.”

If convicted, Schneck could spend up to 40 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

the “lunatics” are obviously only on the liberals’ side, in attempting to violate federal laws that protect the graves and monuments honoring Confederate soldiers as well as the graves honoring Union soldiers. Those laws have been in effect, and unchallenged, since at least the 1910s. The HATRED shown by liberals toward people who only were defending themselves against an illegal, unconstitutional and blatant disregard of their civil rights by the northern government, which started the War Between the States by sending US Navy ships into Charleston Harbor in 1861 to relieve the Fort Sumter garrison, whose commander had agreed to surrender the fort on April 16, 1861. The US government’s sending ships of war into the territory of a sovereign state (South Carolina was in fact a sovereign state (as were all US States) in 1861, and so was the Confederate States of America, which had written and ratified its own constitution BEFORE Lincoln’s actions in early April 1861 and thereafter destroyed forever the notion stated in the Declaration of Independence in 1776 that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, which was the entire justifcation for the American Revolution and the establishment of both the Articles of Confederation and the subsequent Constitution and Bill of Rights for the USA.

Jeremy Tomassetti

And herein lies the true evil of Islamic Fascism. The ideology that violent terrorism can be used effectively to effect change has begun to spread like the virus it is.

Now we have more and more and more people of all races and religions that are adopting terrorism as a strategy to implement their beliefs and desires and force them on society. I suspect that was Bin Ladens plan all along: to gradually agitate the west to the point where we devolve to their level and begin to behave like them.

This shit has to stop. We are better than this and i dont want our society to have a goddamn thing in common with theirs.